iCub: The not-yet-finished story of building a robot child
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The iCub open-source humanoid robot child is a successful initiative supporting research in embodied artificial intelligence.
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Movie S1. History of the iCub.
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Science Robotics
Volume 2 | Issue 13
December 2017
December 2017
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Received: 2 October 2017
Accepted: 5 December 2017
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EU Commission: award364770, ICT-FP6-004370
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